DOGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

DOGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a close-knit elementary-level community in SMITHTOWN, New York, overseen by SMITHTOWN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 350 students spanning grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 21% below the state mean of about 443.

Within SMITHTOWN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 12 schools and 7,437 students, DOGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, DOGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (80%); the rest looks like 13% Hispanic, 3% Asian, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 66% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, DOGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 13% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Suffolk County runs at roughly 39%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, DOGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 70.2%, the actual is 62.1%, a residual of -8.1 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Suffolk County indicate median household income runs about $130,686, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Suffolk County's 343 public schools (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students), DOGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is SMITHTOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.9 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, DOGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 65.0%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at DOGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has ticked down 10%, going from 390 students in 2018 to 350 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 8% to 13% over that span.

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